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At the age of 55, Frinton became a belated success as a plumber character in the popular television sitcom Meet the Wife, which ran for 40 episodes (the wife was played by Thora Hird). The series is mentioned in the Beatles song "Good Morning, Good Morning" with the line "It's time for tea and Meet the Wife". In October 1968, at the age of 59, Freddie Frinton died suddenly from a heart attack in London. He is buried at the Westminster Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, London.This would be the end of the story of a not very well remembered English comedian, were there not a surprising postscript. In 1963, Frinton's Dinner for One had been recorded by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) German television station, and bizarrely, watching the non-subtitled English language sketch on television subsequently became a German New Year's Eve tradition, with the short seeing multiple repeats every year from 1972 onwards. The television cult also caught on in Scandinavia and Dinner for One has been a hugely popular permanent, mandatory institution on Danish and Swedish Television on New Year's Eve for many years. It is also shown every 23 December on Norwegian Television. It is also shown on the Australian SBS television network on New Year's Eve, and has been for at least the last fifteen years. Interestingly the programme and its main actor Frinton are virtually unknown in Britain.
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